Products and Tools
Everything in one place, with an honest label on each one so you know what you are actually getting.
Available means you can use it today. Coming soon means it is being built and you can join the waitlist to hear first.
Free tools
Start here if you are not sure where to start. No payment, no account.
The Self Advocacy Check-In
Available · Free · About 3 minutes
Ten honest statements about speaking up. See where you are at. No score to feel bad about, no wrong answers.
The System Advocacy Check-In
Available · Free · About 3 minutes
For when the problem is not your confidence, it is the system you are stuck inside. Helps you work out where the blockage actually is.
The Social Role Valorisation Check-In
Available · Free · About 3 minutes
For understanding how the roles you hold shape the way people treat you.
Understanding Your Rights
Available · Free
What you are entitled to, in plain words, and how to ask for it.
The Self Advocacy Starter Kit
Available · Free download
The basics in one pack, for when you want something you can print and write on.
Free with a members account
The Welcome Library
Available · Free · Free members account
Short guides, scripts and challenges to start with, on me. Things like The 5 Scripts for Hard Conversations, 30 Days to Your Louder Voice, The Spark Deck and the first half of From Survivor to System Navigator. You get a mystery gift for joining too.
The Great Unstick
Available · Free · No account needed
A free little game. Four neighbours want to join a festival, but the rules got tangled. Change the rules and find a way in for every one of them. Each town you open lights a gem and gives you a skill for finding your way through real systems. No clock, and you can undo anything.
Workshops
Workshops with Madeleine
Available · One hour · Face to face
Five workshops on self advocacy, system advocacy, Social Role Valorisation and real co design. Everyone goes home with three things they made themselves.
Courses
Self Advocacy Unleashed
Coming soon
The course this all started with. Built from lived experience, to help you find your voice, set boundaries, and know that it is okay to say no. For people who are tired of leaving rooms wishing they had said something.
Collections
The System Navigator Collection
Coming soon
More than ninety practical resources for understanding how the systems around you actually work, and moving through them with more confidence. A no fluff toolkit for anyone who has ever felt lost, blamed, or exhausted by the services meant to support them.
The System Navigator Academy
Coming soon
A place to learn how systems work and how to move through them, one small step at a time, led by lived experience. Four starter courses are built.
Learn more and join the waitlist
System Navigator for Organisations
Coming soon
Practical tools for services, teams and leaders to understand and improve the systems they run, with lived experience built into everyday decisions.
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The app
LighteningUp Navigator
Coming soon · Included when you buy any Lightening Up product
Nine connected tools in one calm app. Understand a confusing decision, prepare for a meeting, draft what you need to say, work out where to go next, and keep track of what was promised.
Your information stays on your device. It installs to your phone, tablet or computer and works offline.
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